Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Pakistan and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Brick to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Altered Images,
Dark Day,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rhythm & Sound,
Brand Nubian,
Neu!,
Porter Ricks,
Average White Band,
Mark Hollis,
This Heat,
EPMD,
Sugar Minott,
John Lydon,
Lakeside,
Second Layer,
The Fall,
Infiniti,
Rosa Yemen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eric Dolphy,
Lyres,
F. McDonald,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jandek,
Hashim,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bill Wells,
The Five Americans,
Swans,
Yellowson,
Echospace,
The Happenings,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sun City Girls,
Mr. Review,
OOIOO,
Television Personalities,
Black Bananas,
The Flesh Eaters,
Todd Rundgren,
Quantec,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Monks,
Section 25,
The Fire Engines,
Robert Hood,
Boz Scaggs,
Scrapy,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Real Kids,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Cramps,
Thee Headcoats,
Mo-Dettes,
The Pop Group,
Danielle Patucci,
Country Joe & The Fish,
DNA,
Mandrill,
The Velvet Underground,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.